AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED by the journalist who invented the Phillips Code for the telegraph WALTER P. PHILLIPS requesting information about the explorer George Kennan's lecture from Major Pond.

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New York, April 9th, 1890., 1890. Very good. - Two pages consisting of over 80 words penned on 2 faces of 8-1/8 inch high by 5-1/4 inch wide "The United Press" stationery with an integral attached leaf. In his letter addressed to American impressario and lecture manager Major James B. Pond, Phillips informs him that "unless some unforeseen circumstance presents it I shall be very glad indeed to be present at your spread on the 27th instant." He writes that his mother and father are visiting and that he wants "them to go over to Brooklyn Monday night and hear Kennan" and asks Pond for the particulars regarding where "Kennan is to hold forth". Signed with his rapidly scribbled signature. Folded for mailing, Pond has stamped that he has answered at the top left of the first page. Very good. The American journalist, telegrapher and inventor Walter P. Phillips (1846-1920) expanded telegraph codes with his Phillips Code which allowed for brevity by making use of such abbreviations as POTUS and SCOTUS. He was managing editor of the Providence Morning Herald and subsequently editor of the Providence Morning Star before becoming the head of The United Press. George Kennan (1845-1924), to whose lecture Phillips refers, was an American explorer noted for his travels in the Kamchatka and Caucasus regions of the Russian Empire.

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AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED by the journalist who invented the Phillips Code for the telegraph WALTER P. PHILLIPS requesting information about the explorer George Kennan's lecture from Major Pond.

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New York, April 9th, 1890.

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1890

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Very good

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